a| 9781781680940

a| eng

a| Osborne, Peter 4| aut 9| 15948

a| Anywhere or not at all: The philosophy of contemporary art

a| London b| Verso c| 2013

a| 282

a| Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? Anywhere or Not at All is a major philosophical intervention in art theory that challenges the terms of established positions through a new approach at once philosophical, historical, social and art-critical. Developing the position that 'contemporary art is postconceptual art,' the book progresses through a dual series of conceptual constructions and interpretations of particular works to assess the art from a number of perspectives: contemporaneity and its global context; art against aesthetic; the Romantic pre-history of conceptual art; the multiplicity of modernisms; transcategoriality; conceptual abstraction; photographic ontology; digitalization; and the institutional and existential complexities of art-space and art-time. Anywhere or Not at All maps out the conceptual space for an art that is both critical and contemporary in the era of global capitalism.

c| BOO

a| boek

b| ORPH c| ORPH j| ORPH.PHI OSBO a

c| 13993 d| 13993